Shay Mc Carthy Symes
About
Shay Mc Carthy Symes is from Tamarama, New South Wales, Australia. Shay is currently Design Manager at MESHKI. In Shay's previous role as a Design Lead at MESHKI, Shay worked in Australia until Jan 2025. Prior to joining MESHKI, Shay was a Senior Designer at MESHKI and held the position of Senior Designer at Australia. Prior to that, Shay was a Senior Designer at boohoo, based in Manchester Area, United Kingdom from Jul 2022 to Oct 2023. Shay started working as Senior Designer at Missguided in Nov 2019. From Oct 2017 to Nov 2019, Shay was Long lead Womenswear Designer at Missguided, based in Manchester, United Kingdom. Prior to that, Shay was a Senior Outerwear & Casuals Designer at Visage Ltd, based in Manchester, United Kingdom from Jan 2016 to Oct 2017. Shay started working as Multi Product Designer at Softwear Industries Ltd in Dec 2014.
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Shay Mc Carthy Symes's current jobs
Shay Mc Carthy Symes's past jobs
Senior Designer with over ten years experience creating Innovative designs in the fashion industry. Helping to support manage the design team and creative outputs required by the Head of Design and business growth. RE_STYLD / MSGD SPORT / LOUNGE&NIGHT / DENIM / OUTERWEAR / KNITWEAR / FOOTWEAR / ACCESSORIES
Specialising in Denim, Outerwear & Knitwear
Womenswear Designer for Softwear Industries Ltd: a highly creative Supplier of jerseywear and accessories to large multinational brands such as Topshop, Asos, New Look, River Island, Urban Outfitters. - Regularly presenting ideas and designs to teams of buyers and managers - Creating trend and design packs - Sourcing fabrics and trims - Managing and liaising with factories in Asia - Keeping track of production using critical path - Research trips, blogs, shop research - Proficient on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Excel, Word - Mac and PC
Large Chinese supplier speculating in Footwear and Accessories, customers in the UK, South America, Australia and Asia - In-house designer responsible for creating ranges, drawing up CADs and factory tech packs - Responsible for forecasting and analysing trends to suit our various consumer market demands - Updating CAD range plans in development - Over seeing design samples from concept to production - Managing storage of samples and organising archives
A design hub for international designers to bring their creative thinking to a commercial market to then realise and apply their conceptual ideas to a broad range of markets and products. Designing the womenswear jersey collections for Vera Moda & ONLY from concept stage through to manufacturing - creating mood boards and colour palettes for seasonal trends - Working on unique designs set by a brief and creating commercial products suited to the target market - Meeting with customers, leasing with factories and attending fairs - Working in a fast pace environment to tight deadlines and with the design team to create presentations
- Lecturing Fashion & Design students at University level - Responsible for efficiently planning and compiling teaching materials - Teaching students the process of research to production, trend analysis, garment construction, technical drawing (hand drawn & digital) - Working on industry supported projects
Assistant Designer
Clients include: Fellowship for British Hairdressing, Phil Smith, Umberto Giannini Working as both an undergraduate and postgraduate (paid) Responsibilities included: - Attending national events such as Salon International - Producing a critique of the show for an article published in FM Magazine (April 2011) - Facilitating press calls (Alternative Hair Show 2011) selection of models for hair shoots for national magazines - Liaising with model agencies and management of bookings. - Stylist for Umberto Giannini Birmingham Shoot 2012 - Photo’s pending publication in Hair Magazine November & December issues 2012. - General Office Duties – Admin, updating records, phone calls, press releases, Mac Computers.